| 单词 | falsehood |
| 释义 | falsehood (once / 557 pages) n A falsehood is a lie. If your mom has an uncanny knack for knowing when you're telling a falsehood, it means she always knows when you're stretching the truth. The noun falsehood is a slightly fancy or old-fashioned way of saying "lie." It's hard to ever completely trust a friend again once he's told you a falsehood, although sometimes people tell small falsehoods simply to make others feel better. Telling your aunt her pink hair looks fine is a small falsehood, while lying about your grades on a college application is a pretty big falsehood. The Latin root is falsus, "deceived or erroneous." WORD FAMILYfalsehood: falsehoods+/false: falsehood, falsely, falseness, falser, falses, falsest, falsity/falseness: falsenesses/falsity: falsities USAGE EXAMPLES“Ten Questions For Fake News Detection” helps teachers and students comb through an article to find tell-tale signs of falsehood. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) Falsehoods and character assassinations should never be reprinted. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) “Unsurprising that HPSCI’s report is rifled with obvious falsehoods. The only surprise is how accidentally exonerating it is,” Snowden tweeted. The Guardian(Dec 22, 2016) 1n a false statement Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper falsity, untruth true statement, truth a true statement dodge, dodging, scheme a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery lie, prevaricationa statement that deviates from or perverts the truth fable, fabrication, fictiona deliberately false or improbable account deceit, deception, misrepresentationa misleading falsehood contradiction, contradiction in terms(logic) a statement that is necessarily false bill of goodscommunication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable humbug, snake oilcommunication (written or spoken) intended to deceive antinomya contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable paradox(logic) a statement that contradicts itself fib, story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddlea trivial lie jactitation(law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law) walloper, whoppera gross untruth; a blatant lie white liean unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite) canarda deliberately misleading fabrication half-trutha partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead facade, window dressinga showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant exaggeration, magnification, overstatementmaking to seem more important than it really is snow joba long and elaborate misrepresentation dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretensepretending with intention to deceive blind, subterfugesomething intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickeryverbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way duplicity, fraudulencea fraudulent or duplicitous representation equivocation, evasiona statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth statement a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc 2n the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting Syn|Hypo|Hyper falsification frame-up, setup an act that incriminates someone on a false charge sophisticationfalsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies forgerycriminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud dishonesty, knavery lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing |
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